3 4 5 6 7 11 14 Chancellor Emily Award Winners Jeff Hamada Designs Alumnus Profile: How Soon Is Now? Student Exchange/ Black + White Bash Installation Ceremony For Converse Simon Chang Mobility Program

spring 2009 published by emily carr university’s advancement office vısıons Courtney l hae c Mi ll i H Kharen Honorary Doctorates: Stan Douglas and Sarah McLachlan

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Visual artist Stan Douglas and musician-singer- Reached by cellphone in a cab on his way to the airport songwriter Sarah McLachlan, this year’s recipients of (he was due to exhibit his Cuban-shot film project the Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Emily Carr, Inconsolable Memories at the Havana Biennial), could hardly represent more diverse practices. And yet Douglas speaks about interests and influences while they have in common stellar successes in their he was an art student. They include Samuel Beckett, individual fields and an imperative to use their creative Robert Venturi, Miles Davis and an instructor, Stephen powers to illuminate the human condition. Clark, who introduced him to phenomenology. Clearly, these formative influences have served him well: Douglas, who was born in Vancouver and was a Douglas’s lengthy cv lists nearly 50 solo exhibitions, in student at what was then Emily Carr College of Art and museums and galleries from Barcelona to Bangkok and Design from 1979 until 1982, is renowned for the from Venice to Chicago. His work has appeared three intellectual rigour and visual complexity of his video times each at Documenta and the Venice Biennale, has and film projections. His media installations, which been collected worldwide, and has been the subject of may also incorporate still photography, range across a countless acclamatory books, catalogues, feature number of themes and subjects, from urban articles and reviews. development to Sigmund Freud’s theory of the uncanny and from failed utopias to the free jazz Douglas’s current project, an eight- by 13-metre movement in France in the 1960s. As Daina Augaitis, photo-mural on glass for the redeveloped Woodward’s chief curator of Vancouver Art Gallery, has observed, site, examines the Gastown Riots of 1971. Also known “Stan is tackling really big issues, things that have to as “The Battle of Maple Tree Square,” the riots occurred do with how we function as a society.” when Vancouver police violently broke up a pot- smoking, counter-culture protest. Douglas sees these Whatever his apparent subject, Douglas consistently events as a “crucial” moment in the subsequent reimagines history, disrupting and rearranging images dereliction of the area around what was once the and narratives. “I’m just trying to understand through thriving Woodward’s department store. “It was the history the condition that we’re in today,” he says end of people there having an investment in the simply. Ignorance of our past, he suggests, can be neighbourhood,” he says of the riots, revealing the disastrous for our present and our future. impetus behind his most recent reimagining of history. //Continued on page 2.

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Stan Douglas and Emily Carr University of Emily Carr will also be partnering with VANOC in the Art + Design has, for mounting of a large exhibit during the Olympics. Sarah McLachlan nearly 85 years, fulfilled Designed to showcase the creativity of national and // Continued from page 1 the mission of educating international artists from all disciplines who use some of the best artists digital media in their works, CODE on the Ground and designers in British promises to be a uniquely engaging event that Born and raised in Halifax, Sarah McLachlan Columbia and Canada. One enables a wide range of audiences to communicate studied voice, piano and guitar as a child and of the most important and interact with works of art as never before. We enjoyed musical success while still in high reasons that we have are also partnering with Visa in an exciting Olympic school, fronting a rock band called The October been so successful has project that will provide our students with a variety Game. She left her studies at Nova Scotia been as a result of the of wonderful opportunities. In addition, we are College of Art and Design after two semesters support that we have putting together an exhibition in the Charles H. Scott to accept a recording contract with Nettwerk received from the Gallery on Canadian design history. Records. McLachlan then moved to Vancouver community and from the provincial government. where she built her reputation as one of this Notwithstanding many of the challenges that we face, Over the last few months, Emily Carr has reinvented country’s most outstanding musicians. Her Emily Carr attracts not only some of the best students in itself. We now have four Faculties: Culture and distinctive brand of what Rolling Stone Canada and internationally, but also the best faculty and Community, Design and Dynamic Media, Visual Art and describes as “lush, moody folk pop” has staff. We are B.C.’s Centre of Excellence in art and design Material Practice, and Graduate Studies and Research. earned her three Grammy awards and eight and that is manifested in our advocacy for the arts and These Faculties will lead the way in developing new Juno awards during her 20-year, multi- powerful role played by our alumni in all aspects of the curricula for Emily Carr that will link sustainable platinum recording career. cultural life of BC and Canada. principles with learning, creativity with social engagement, lifelong learning with studio practices and McLachlan is also famous for founding the One of my most important activities as President is to academic breadth with research and practical multi-artist festival Lilith Fair, which toured give the broader public an understanding and outcomes. Our curriculum will be even more rigourous North America for three summers in the late appreciation of the importance of the arts for the than it is now, and more interdisciplinary. Our goal is to 1990s. Conceived as a way to spotlight and well-being of our society and to involve Emily Carr in prepare students not only to be artists and designers, promote women in music, it played to some projects that will have genuine social and economic but also to be able to seek whatever career best suits two million viewers and raised more than $7 benefits. So, it was with great delight that I recently their creative abilities. The next five years promise to be million in support of charities and women’s signed a memorandum of agreement with BC Children’s challenging, invigorating and best of all unique as Emily shelters across the continent. The Lilith Fair Hospital that will establish a strategic partnership to Carr moves towards its 90th year! project pitched McLachlan into the media focus on collaborative design research projects. We are spotlight and earned her the Elizabeth Cady already working on the development of a new approach Stanton Visionary Award for advancing the to oxygen delivery in Africa, as well as developing a new careers of women in music. The singer- model for patient tracking in the emergency area of the songwriter has also been honoured with the hospital. We will be jointly approaching a number of Order of Canada, the Order of British Columbia foundations for financial support. Health device design and, most recently, the Allan Waters based on sustainable principles is one of our great Humanitarian Award. strengths at Emily Carr.

As these honours attest, McLachlan’s outstanding creative contributions have been mirrored by her committed work for a number of local, national and international charities. In 1999, she established the Sarah McLachlan Foundation to support local music outreach programs for children and youth in underserved communities. Through benefit concerts, public appearances, videos and the Our New Identity - Unveiled! loan of her music, she has also supported children’s networks, animal protection agencies, and a range of international relief and development organizations. When her most recent humanitarian award was announced, McLachlan said, “I feel so lucky and blessed in my life and giving back feels right and good— it’s the best way I know to thank the universe.”

To accompany Emily Carr’s recent university status and In addition to the print logo, Cari also created an name change, we’ve revamped our identity! Created by animated logo. The inspiration behind the light in-house designer, Cari Bird, the new identity celebrates animation grew from the desire to make the logo Emily Carr’s vision, energy and innovation. In developing flexible and alterable, and, to reflect our involvement in the new logo, Cari adhered to a strict design brief and the growing area of new media. The light animation was consulted with a number of internal and external produced under the art direction of Cari Bird, with the community members; one of the key guidelines was to assistance of Associate professor Martin Rose and remain true to the name of Emily Carr, and the creative Animation Technician Stephen Wichuk, 3rd year Emily and innovative roots of the school. Carr students Chelsea Ker and Hsiao-Chuang (Chloe) Liu. The final light animation was produced by alumnus The logo has two elements - the wordmark and the Ryan Schwitzer. graphic. The graphic is organic in nature, allowing it to grow with the University as we move, transition, and The new identity provides opportunities for all of us to respond to the inherent nature of artists and designers shape and bend in innovative ways as we move further who desire a variety of interpretations and visual into the 21st century. stimuli. The wordmark font, Prelo, designed in 2008 by Dino Dos Santos (Portugal), was selected for its clean lines and contemporary feel. Our creative history is reflected by emphasizing the name of Emily Carr, while the silver graphic element connects to the former industrial nature of Granville Island, and in particular the University’s North building, a former wire factory.

2 Emily Carr university of art + design “Over the last 83 years, Vancouver and British Columbia have been supporters and hosts to an extraordinary institution, one that has seeded, supported and enhanced the artistic and cultural life of our great province and wonderful country. The communities of artists, designers and media creators who have made Emily Carr into one of the most important post-secondary institutions in the country represent what is best about culture and life in Canada.”

Dr. Ron Burnett Chancellor Jake Kerr and the Honourable Steven L. Point, President’s Address Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia Installation Ceremony, Nov. 7, 2008 When is an Institution a University? In Emily Carr’s case, many would answer that question by saying that Emily Carr has been a fully functioning University in all but name for many years. However, for many more the Chancellor Installation Ceremony defining moment was when our Chancellor, John (Jake) Kerr and President and Vice-Chancellor, Ron Burnett, were installed.

The installation ceremony that took place on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2008, at the Rocky Mountaineer Station was a momentous and historic occasion. The presence of the Honourable Steven L. Point, Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia, the Honourable Gordon Campbell, Premier of British Columbia, and the Honourable Murray Coell, Minister of Advanced Education and Labour Market Development, added to the importance of occasion.

With Dr. George Pedersen, Chair, Emily Carr Board of Governors, presiding, the event was run like a well-oiled machine. There was just the right amount of warmth and humour mingled in with the required amount of pomp and ceremony. The ceremony managed to maintain the true essence of the Emily Carr community.

The entrance of the Chancellor’s Party and Vice-Regal Party—drummed in by Xwalacktun (Rick Harry ’82), dressed in his aboriginal wedding clothes, and followed by Associate Professor Sam Carter bearing the University’s mace aloft with a deep sense of pride and ceremony—was a spectacular start to the day’s activities.

The oath of office for both the Chancellor and the President was administered by the Lieutenant Governor and both the Chancellor and President took the oath with meaning, commitment and purpose.

The Chancellor’s address was truly inspirational and his uplifting and honest words resonated with the audience. Chancellor Kerr stated, “I am very grateful to accept this honour of serving as the founding Chancellor of Emily Carr University, and I have taken the Oath of Office with clockwise from left: Xwalacktun (Rick Harry ’82) drums in The entrance of the Chancellor’s Party and Vice-Regal Party; Premier Gordon immense pride. I will do my utmost to fulfill the campbell, jake kerr, Dr. ron burnett and minister murray coell; honorary degree recipients william gibson and peter doig responsibilities in carrying on the tradition that makes Emily Carr a truly great institution.” He also remarked that, “This is not only a celebration of the installation of your founding Chancellor but also a celebration of the long overdue elevation of Emily Carr to university status.”

The occasion was also marked by the conferring of Honorary Doctor of Letters on: Peter Doig, who has established himself as one of the most important painters of his generation, and William Gibson, one of Canada’s most influential writers. An Honorary Doctor of Letters was also bestowed posthumously on our namesake Emily Carr, one of British Columbia’s most distinguished and beloved artists. Receiving the honour Emily Carr Mace on Emily Carr’s behalf was Jan Ross, Curator, Emily Carr House, Victoria. Designed and carved by Aboriginal artist and alumnus Xwalacktun (Rick Harry), the Emily Carr Mace is carved from mahogany with a base of yellow cedar. To mark Emily Carr’s transition to a University, Premier Gordon Campbell unveiled and presented a dedicational The mace contains many elements – an eagle, a human figure, a map of plaque to Chancellor Jake Kerr, President Ron Burnett British Columbia and bells. Revered in native culture, the eagle represents and Board Chair George Pedersen. honesty, truth, majesty, strength, courage, wisdom, power and freedom. The eagle is also representative of those that the artist, Emily Carr would have The ceremony drew to a close with Veda Hille, Emily seen during her many journeys up and down the BC Coast. The human figure Carr alumna, performing the Emily Carr School Song, illustrates that we are all one, from sea to sky to beyond. The map of British which she had composed especially for the occasion. Columbia depicts not only the origins of the school, but also those of Emily Carr. The bells signify the sacred four - directions, seasons, elements and The day’s activities ended with closing remarks by lifeline –infant, youth, adult and elder. The bells have eyes to remind us that President and Vice-Chancellor Ron Burnett. His words our ancestors, communities, family and friends watch over us. were inspirational, profound and yet poignant and left all those present with an extraordinary feeling of The mace has a handle, representative of a talking stick, which has been used accomplishment and pride in this remarkable University in Aboriginal ceremonies for centuries. The intricately carved swirl in the base, we call Emily Carr. emphasizes the power of the mace.

Emily Carr university of art + design 3 When Associate Professor Christian Blyt proposed the Finally, the Bowen Island Community Housing Association HomesForLess HomesForLess project to his third-year industrial design committed to taking the units after a private citizen not students, the mandate was to create small prefabricated only offered space on his 10 acres of land, but also stated homes for the homeless that could be erected anywhere that he would encourage the homeless taking up these Project Meets in the province. These homes needed to cost no more compact homes to grow their own vegetables in order to than $1500 to build and utilize at least 30% recycled/ make an income. The homes were exhibited at the Purple reused materials. Door Gallery on Bowen Island until the end of March Objective 2009, then moved to their permanent space. The students completed four 64-square-foot homes for Lola Augustine Brown show in April at the Home for Less Expo at HomesForLess required serious commitment from the FPInnovations - Forintek (a forestry, industry and students involved, which went far beyond what they got technology research and testing facility at UBC) and the marks for, says Blyt, who adds that his colleague Charles end results were impressive to say the least. The Dobson was equally committed to the project. “There designs were then further refined before being was a huge amount of follow-through; we raised up to exhibited in October on Granville Island, where they $10,000 in cash and in-kind donations to finish the units garnered media attention and generated dialogue about and mount the exhibition. It was great,” says Blyt. ways to deal with the city’s homeless problem. Blyt says that the learning that took place with There was some talk with the municipalities of HomesForLess was phenomenal, and many of his Vancouver, Burnaby and New Westminster about putting students thought that the project was one of the most the units to use, but until recently it seemed that the meaningful experiences they’d had at Emily Carr. “The units were unlikely to fulfil their intended function. homeless issue is such a big problem here,” says Blyt. “Unfortunately, people saw the challenges rather than “We were just looking at a different way of dealing with the opportunities in the project,” Blyt explains. it in an effort to start talking about real solutions.” Homesforless Exhibition on granville island

Emily Award Winners: Task Force on Pyramid Power’s Matt Booth, Jonah Gray and Sacha Hurley Sustainable Practices

Robin Laurence Heather Watson

who was in Emily Carr’s media program, With a two-year head start on the provincial with a special interest in sculpture. The government’s 2010 carbon neutral mandate for all magazine’s design, he adds, plays a post-secondary institutions, a self-organized Task significant role in its overall impact. Force on Sustainable Practices is allowing the Emily That design, which Gray characterizes Carr community to bring their full talents for creative as “bold, considered and self- problem solving to address global environmental conscious,” is the product of Hurley’s issues for themselves and future generations. inventive mind and eye. Co-chaired by University Librarian Sheila Wallace and Facilities Manager Janice Wong, the volunteer group’s A graduate of the communication biweekly meetings have been a forum for staff, faculty design program, Hurley describes and students (independently organized as the working himself as “the costume of the group SWiG) to discuss and develop their roles as magazine.” As for why he and his two learners and citizens for whom environmental colleagues launched Pyramid Power, stewardship is as integral as the art and design upon he says, “The magazine is everything which they focus. that we want to see published in a way that we want to see it.” Booth, a Also driving the Task Force are Assistant Professor of photography grad, adds, “There is a Design Duane Elverum and Interim Dean of the Faculty lot of work out there that deserves to of Culture and Community Susan Stewart, who each be published -- to be made prioritize sustainability in their own art and curricula. permanent. Pyramid Power is a way Elverum’s enthusiasm originally sparked the formation for us to give that distinction to the of the Task Force three years ago and encouraged work that we think deserves it.” President Dr. Ron Burnett to join 350 other universities worldwide in signing the Talloires Agreement declaring Gray explains, “Sacha and I had it a sustainable institute of learning. SWiG member Alex worked on Woo, Emily Carr’s student Achtem, a second-year Visual Arts student, is publication, and we felt inspired to encouraged by the spirit of co-operation she sees on take what we’d done there a little the Task Force, and as Stewart acknowledges, Right to left: Sacha Hurley, Matt Booth and Jonah Gray further.” He adds, “Once we’d “students are actually in a lot of cases more educated decided to start a magazine, there than the faculty on some of these issues.” “Why buy an art magazine that you can’t finish?” The was a longish period of time where, in order to pay for question is one that this year’s winners of the Emily the printing, we literally hoofed it all over town trying As the envisioning group is discovering, Award, Matt Booth, Jonah Gray and Sacha Hurley, pose to convince people to advertise." sustainability involves much more than a in their acclaimed arts publication, Pyramid Power. cafeteria wall of reusable mugs, double-sided Although boasting only five issues to date, Pyramid In recognition of its successes to date (including printing and upgraded lightbulbs, although Power has piqued interest and earned kudos locally, magazine honours and award nominations regionally and Achtem, Stewart and Wong are justifiably proud nationally and internationally. According to artist Jeff nationally, and wide distribution at home and abroad), of those and other waste reduction and cost- Wall, an early contributer to the magazine, “Pyramid Pyramid Power now receives operating grants from the saving conservation efforts. Increased Power involves both critical discussion and formal Canada Council and the Canada Magazine Fund. The Emily communication — through outreach like the experimentation in an exciting, unique combination.” Award, which honours outstanding achievements by recent “Emily Green” social and the Task Force’s Wall adds, “I like its fresh attitude and its focus on University alumni in the early years of their careers, is impending launch of a blog — is intended to young artists and writers, but I also like the fact that further recognition of its creators’ far-ranging vision and broadly inform and inspire. they are interested in contributions from older people commitment. “I think we all consider the magazine to be (like me) as well.” an art practice in itself,” says Booth, “which is a good In the future, reintroducing papermaking classes, thing because it’s a sizable undertaking that doesn’t adding green spaces to manage organic waste and Part of Pyramid Power’s fresh attitude is that it addresses leave us with much time left over.” investigating new technologies like waterless urinals not only the visual arts, through criticism, interviews with and new ways of treating photographic chemicals artists and the publishing of artists’ projects, but also other "Jonah, Matt and Sacha are making contemporary may all contribute to a greater legacy of disciplines, including imaginative prose and poetry and culture happen and people are paying attention,” says environmental literacy. “Our responsibility,” says other fields of design. “From the beginning we have fellow alumna and artist Elizabeth Zvonar. “They are Elverum of both the Task Force and the University, included literature... and we have recently expanded into showing us that they adhere to exceptional standards “is showing the power of social agency through the discussions about architecture and fashion,” says Gray, and are doing and will continue to do great things." creative work.”

4 Emily Carr university of art + design Jeff Hamada Dr. Carol Gigliotti: Designs For Wildness, Converse Creativity and Robin Laurence Animal Life

In conversation, Jeff Hamada communicates a great Lola Augustine Brown generosity of spirit. This generosity is evident in many of his undertakings, including time the acclaimed young graphic designer spent as a volunteer in Sri Lanka, building houses following the 2004 tsunami. It can be seen, too, in his AIDS-charity design for world-famous shoe manufacturer Converse. Hamada’s image — 100 overlapping hands printed on a line of Chuck Taylor hightops — was adopted as part of the footwear giant’s 1HUND(RED) artists charity initiative, which celebrates the company’s 100th anniversary while collaborating with the (PRODUCT) RED campaign to raise funds for and awareness of the fight against AIDS in Africa. jeff hamada with his converse design cover: Leonardo’s Choice: genetic technologies and animals "I jumped at the opportunity,” Hamada says of the After a year there, Hamada returned to Emily Carr to invitation to submit a design. “I instantly had the finish his degree, then launched his freelance career As an Associate Professor in Dynamic Media and Critical + image of hands reaching out to help those in Africa with “action-sports and street-oriented graphics” Cultural Studies, Carol Gigliotti (www.carolgigliotti.net) and also the hands of people in Africa reaching out for hoodies, caps, T-shirts, sweatshirts, jackets and has covered several different subject areas since joining for help.” The 100 hands, whose different colours boards. His art ranges in mood from upbeat and the faculty in 2000, but in recent years has increasingly represent different nationalities, are backed by “a bit optimistic (the 1HUND(RED) hands for Converse) to been able to bring her enthusiasm and passion for of sky blue because I wanted this message to be a dark and doom-laden (his recent graphics for animal rights and the responsibilities of man toward hopeful one,” he adds. The February launch of the Endeavor snowboards take the biblical theme of the animals to her teaching. hightops, an AIDS fundraiser at the local sneaker Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse). boutique Livestock, was a huge success. In 2005, Gigliotti won a grant from the Reverie Foundation, Hamada is also funnelling energy into his art and which supports environmental causes, and developed the When Hamada enrolled in media arts at Emily Carr, he photography blog Booooooom! (www.booooooom. Environmental Ethics class that she is so passionate about was shifting his high-school interest in graphic com), which draws over a million page views a delivering to her students. The class has proven popular, design into the area of filmmaking. During his third month. “I created the site to inspire creative people and has had long wait lists since its inception. year, however, he won a co-op position as a graphic and to cultivate a community excited to go out and designer and concept artist at Electronic Arts, set up make stuff,” he says. Again, his generous spirit shines The interest that students have in animal welfare comes through Emily Carr’s highly successful Career + Co-op through his words, his actions and his art. not only from the fact that many of them are focusing Office. “I did everything from character and on animals in their work, says Gigliotti, but also because environment design to corporate logo work and there has been a push at Emily Carr to be thoughtful in branding,” he says. EA liked his work so much that these areas. “Students are very interested in how we they asked him to stay on. treat and look at animals,” she says, “and the class links well with environmental, political, economic and social theory and practice.”

Gigliotti’s writings on the subject of animals are respected the world over: her essay Leonardo’s Choice Jim Budd + KURIO at the 2009 is being used to teach classes at universities, such as UCLA’s Law School and the ART|SCIENCE Center, and she receives more invitations to speak on her work than she Northwest Design Invitational could ever feasibly take up. Because of this, Gigliotti took a year-long sabbatical for the 2007-’08 school Associate Professor Jim Budd, along with his year in order to meet some of those requests to speak colleagues from SFU and Carleton, received a gold and work on the book Wilderness and Technology: award (concept category) for Kurio: A Tangible creativity and animal life. Her edited book, Leonardo’s Interactive Museum Guide from the Industrial Choice: genetic technologies and animals, which Designer Society of America at the 2009 Northwest contains the essay of the same name, is due to be Design Invitational. published in August.

Kurio is a museum guide system designed to enhance During her sabbatical year, Gigliotti presented at various interaction among family members and small groups conferences, including: Giving Voice to Other Beings at visiting a museum. As opposed to more typical Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee; the sixth museum guides with a backlit display and graphical Kurio: A Tangible Interactive Museum Guide annual Conference for Critical Animal Studies & second user interface, the Kurio system utilizes tangible annual Green Theory and Praxis Conference at Montana interaction, similar to the feedback of the Nintendo underscores how important prototyping is for State University, where she gave the opening keynote Wii. The Kurio system guides visitors through the working in interdisciplinary teams where many speech, with Dr. Steven Best; the Nature Matters museum with haptic, audio and visual cues generated aspects of the system have to be developed Conference 2007 in Toronto; the 21st annual Conference by sensor technologies to help correctly identify and simultaneously. Complex interactions and a broad of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts in differentiate key artifacts as part of a quest to solve a range of issues have to be resolved in terms of Portland, Maine, and The Planetary Collegium/Montreal “Museum Challenge.” The interactive museum guide creating a truly exceptional experience. 2007 Summit. She has also given a number of radio and itself is composed of four tangible devices, a tabletop webcast interviews. display, and a personal digital assistant, all networked “Kurio is an ambitious design research project which wirelessly to a central reasoning engine that guides demonstrates our potential to leverage wireless Though her sabbatical is over and she is back to the family or group through a museum visit. The communication in combination with interactive teaching classes on Critical Animal Studies, tangibles were designed as tools to enhance the sensor technologies to enhance social interaction Environmental Ethics and Interactivity, Gigliotti is still storyline and invite playful interactions. and learning in a playful manner,” says Budd. “We actively writing, speaking and serving on several anticipate the visibility of this project and the international boards. She recently returned from The design of the prototype system evolved over a lessons we have learned will help foster creative presenting on The Reconfiguration of Animals at the period of 18 months beginning with ethnographic new initiatives in the application of interaction 97th College Art Association in Los Angeles. In July, studies of museum visits by small groups and design to digital media for both research and Gigliotti will be in Australia to speak on Minding Animals families. In parallel with the ethnographic studies, teaching at Emily Carr.” at the 2009 International Academic & Community the project also involved an assessment of technical Conference on Animals & Society. The Spring 2009 options that could potentially support the type of The IDSA is an organization of professional designers edition of the British online journal Antennae (www. tangible interaction the designers envisioned. A fully with more than 3,300 members and 28 chapters. antennae.org.uk) features an interview with Gigliotti operational prototype system has undergone The organization is the voice of the industrial design and a reprint of one of her essays as well as an excerpt thorough field-testing with a number of volunteer profession, advancing the quality and positive from the introduction to Leonardo’s Choice. families at the Surrey Museum. The project impact of design.

Emily Carr university of art + design 5 Alumnus Profile: Simon Chang

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On Simon Chang’s website, there’s a great shot of him disciplined in his work ethic yet unconventional in his walking a runway with one of his long-legged models. thinking,” Chang recalls. “He encouraged me to be a She is wearing an elegant Simon Chang gown and he is creative person and not be a technician." dressed in a slim-fitting black jacket, black shirt and black trousers. His clothes are set off niftily by a pair of With work experience in fashion layouts and fashion red shoes—and by the red and white Order of Canada buying, but with no formal education in fashion design, medal pinned to his lapel. One of our country’s foremost Chang is essentially self-taught in his chosen field. After fashion designers and one of Emily Carr’s most designing for others, he established his own line of distinguished alumni, Chang was awarded the Order of women’s clothing in 1983, and attributes his original Canada in a ceremony held in Quebec City last fall. approach to fashion to his visual arts training. “What I do is very diverse,” he explains. “For instance, I do a lot He was honoured not only for his extraordinary career of my own custom colouring for my fabrics... With my successes, which have included creating an graphic-design background, I see colours very, very internationally acclaimed line of women’s clothing along differently. And patterns.” Then he adds, “When you're with accessories, eyewear, swimwear and home trained only in fashion, you tend to be quite technical in furnishings, but also for his generous charitable work designing clothes." through The Simon Chang and Phyllis Levine Foundation. He once told City Life Magazine, “I love all aspects of the Established in 1986 with Chang’s then business partner creative process, from the sketching to the draping to (Phyllis Levine died in 2006), the Foundation supports a the photographing.” Commenting now by phone, he range of educational, social and medical research causes, says that when he is designing a new collection, he not as well as providing scholarships to third-year design only envisions the clothing but also the models, the students. Speaking by phone from his Montreal office, advertising campaign, the fashion shoots, even the Chang says that the impetus behind the Foundation was accent colours within each photograph. to reciprocate his “great good fortune.” Then he adds, “Through the Foundation, I'm able to give back to the Chang laughs when he recalls his early working years. community that has been so supportive of me." “We did not have the luxury of digital cameras and computers,” he says. “We actually had to draw to Chang, who has been based in Montreal since 1974, grew express our ideas!” As for the most essential quality in a up in Vancouver and majored in graphic design and very tough, very competitive world, he utters one word: photography at the Vancouver School of Art between passion. “You’ve got to live and breathe the business. 1967 and 1971. He cites graphic-design instructor Fred This is what passion is.” Simon chang Peters as an important influence. “He was very

Alumnus Profile: Alumna Profile: John Belisle Kasia Piech

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It was by strange, or perhaps Kasia Piech was pleasantly surprised fateful, coincidence that Emily that she was awarded the prestigious Carr communication design Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramics, student John Belisle decided to which grants recipients $10,000 to do his grad year project on the support their research and career Sydney Olympics identity. Fifteen development. “It’s a fabulous thing,” years later, Belisle went on to says Piech, who graduated from Emily design the 2010 Vancouver Carr with a BFA in Ceramic Sculpture in Olympic Games postage stamps 2001. “This is the biggest award that as part of his work as Associate you can win for ceramics in Canada; I Creative Director with Signals had no idea that I would win the first Design Group Inc. “Who’d have year I applied.” thought back then that Vancouver would ever get the Piech’s work, The Garden of Earthly one of five stamps designed for the series Olympics?” he says. Delights, references Hieronymus Bosch’s work of the same name. “The seven Being selected to design the Olympic stamps is a huge deal for any design firm. The deadly sins that Bosch referred to are Olympic Games are an event that rarely comes to Canada and Belisle calls it a once-in our vices these days and I want to take a-lifetime opportunity. It was an exciting project for the firm, and one that had to be Bosch’s historical references and make kept top secret until the stamps were launched on Jan. 13. them more relevant to today,” she says. To do this, Piech will travel to Spain to In the course of his career, Belisle has designed 16 stamps— eight of which he also Kasia Piech, Head in wheelbarrow (sloth) study Bosch’s original paintings in the illustrated—but he is particularly proud of this set. “Because the stamps are being Museo del Prado, then take a residency issued in unlimited circulation, they will be seen everywhere and because there are in Italy to further explore the concepts behind her work before returning to huge numbers of people that collect Olympic stamps they are getting lots of attention exhibit her work in Thunder Bay. both at home and abroad,” says the designer. Piech already held a degree in Religious Studies before she decided to apply to “This set of stamps has led to lots of inquiries from stamp blogs and publications about attend Emily Carr, although she had also applied to take a master’s degree in the process we went through in creating the Olympic stamps,” says Belisle. “It’s been linguistics at the same time. “If I hadn’t gone to Emily Carr I’d be a linguist great to see the buzz that these stamps have created, and there is a real sense of pride somewhere, but I’m doing this now — still communicating but in a different in knowing that these stamps will probably outlive us.” way,” she says.

Studying at Emily Carr enabled Belisle to create what he calls a “perfect portfolio” that After graduating from Emily Carr, Piech went on to obtain an MFA from the led to a series of great design jobs since he graduated in 1994. Thinking back, Belisle University of Waterloo in 2003 and now teaches ceramics at Lakehead University reckons that 90 per cent of his class was working in design as soon as they graduated in Thunder Bay. Piech credits attending Emily Carr with giving her a foundation because studying at Emily Carr gave them a competitive edge. “At the time we were from which to create art, and often thinks about her experiences there when the only four-year design program in Vancouver and we had the most access to teaching her own classes. “Not only were the instructors at Emily Carr great computers, which meant that a lot of our design was created digitally while other influences on my work, but they allowed me the freedom to explore wherever my programs were still relying on paste-up.” work wanted to go, no matter how dark or eerie,” says Piech.

6 Emily Carr university of art + design Review: How Soon Is Now? At the Vancouver Art Gallery from Feb. 7 to May 3, 2009

By Robin Laurence

How Soon Is Now? has generated considerable media buzz and community excitement — and not surprisingly. The Vancouver Art Gallery survey of new work by 34 emerging and established British Columbia artists is a high-voltage mix of media and ideas. Audio, video, sculptural and architectural installations abound, inflected here and there with fabric sculptures, hybrid ceramics, mock-modernist constructions, fake elevator doors — and a few paintings, drawings and photographs. Kristi Malakoff: Target, 2005 The exhibition, says its curator Kathleen Ritter, How Soon is Now?: Contemporary Art from Here includes the following alumni and faculty: Abbas Akhavan, sessional faculty; “privileges events over objects, process over product Sonny Assu (02); Cedric Bomford (03); Aaron Carpenter, former student; Hadley + Maxwell (98); Christian Kliegel (04); Kristi Malakoff (05); Kyla Mallett (00); Damian Moppett (92); Samuel Roy-Bois, sessional faculty; Kevin Schmidt (96); Kathy Slade, Gallery Assistant and and interaction over contemplation.” Visitors are not sessional faculty; Mark Soo (99); Erica Stocking (04); and, Holly Ward, sessional faculty. simply viewers but encounterers and participants. We are invited to play musical instruments and erase institutional boundaries in Samuel Roy-Boi’s sound A playful sense of improvisation prevails in many booth; clamber up stairs, over bleachers and works. An example is Kara Uzelman’s site-specific through social hierarchies in the huge architectural installation, Magnetic Stalactites, a dozen tapering installation Cedric Bomford created with his brother formations hanging from the ceiling and held together, Alumna Profile: Nathan and father Jim, and sit in Instant Coffee’s little as the title indicates, by magnetism. Each “stalactite” “kitchen nooks,” playing old 45s and chatting with is composed of dozens of metal objects found in and friends and strangers. around the gallery, including cans, pans, trays, kettles, Kathleen Ritter keys, pipes and paper clips. Individual objects As we walk through the show, we're also aware of an communicate their banal intended function; together, By Robin Laurence unseen presence: low reverberating base sounds they convey a funny and melancholy history of place, emerge from behind the walls. Indistinct, almost waste and over-consumption. Part of the excitement around the Vancouver Art subliminal, Mark Soo’s audio work, Second Hand Story, Gallery’s big survey exhibition, How Soon Is Now?, evokes the familiar urban experience of hearing a The connection between How Soon Is Now? and Emily is the emergence of a new curatorial vision. While neighbour’s rock music through a connecting wall. This Carr is powerful: over half the artists in the show maintaining her own cross-disciplinary art form of auditory trespass is usually conditioned by either graduated from or teach at the university. Its practice, VAG Assistant Curator Kathleen Ritter has residential architecture and social strictures. Within an curator is also a grad [see sidebar]. All this suggests a shone the bright light of her intelligence on our institutional context, however, it stimulates a new and significant contribution to an emergent esthetic: the complex and congested art scene. somewhat unsettled awareness of the nature of show lays a knowing finger on the pulse of ambient sound and cultural slippage. contemporary art. A graduate of Emily Carr’s studio program (00), Ritter spent five years working at Artspeak, first as gallery assistant, then as program co- ordinator. She left Vancouver to earn her Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Western Ontario, spent a year teaching there and another year travelling in Europe before returning to Vancouver and taking up the assistant curator position at the VAG in August 2007. Although a career in curation wasn’t an early ambition, Ritter realized while she was a student at Emily Carr that she was equally interested in “making work as in all the conversations that we have around it."

The project of putting together How Soon Is Now? began in early 2008. Ritter was working with the VAG’s curator of British Columbia art, Grant Arnold, making studio visits and having conversations about the nature of the show. “We decided the exhibition wouldn’t have a strong central thematic,” she recounts, “that it would be a really broad and diverse selection of work."

When Arnold took a medical leave in October 2009, Ritter assumed full responsibility for the project. As the show developed, a kind of theme evolved, “not in content or subject,” she observes, “but in a set of descriptions or adjectives that characterized the work. And those adjectives would be unexpected, irreverent, immediate, resistant, improvisational and political.” Ritter then adds, “I think the show really shifts the focus from the object of art to our encounter with the work — and artists really thinking about how those encounters might be less scripted."

Clockwise from top-left: Brady Cranfield + Kathy Slade, The Music Appreciation Society - The Smiths Mobile Research Listening Station; Kara Uzelman, Magnetic Stalactites, 2009; Aaron Carpenter, Armagedon, 2009; Sonny Assu, 1884/1951, 2009. All photos, Dina tracy

Emily Carr university of art + design 7 Chris Meier

Student + Alumni Achievements

Barry Calhoun

Clockwise from top left: Sonny Assu, iDrums; Leo ChaO, Beagle; Andrew Gibbs, New Dawn #2; Nat Dart, The Nature of Battle; Kelly Deck Design

Sonny Assu (02) exhibited iDrums, painted new works in Leo Chao (08) was presented with a Concept Award in Maya Ersan (03) completed an installation Anamnesis 1, the inaugural exhibit of Equinox Gallery 2, located on the iF Design competition for his medical assistive that became a performance using shadowplay, puppets the 2nd floor of the Equinox Gallery this spring. garment, Beagle, a scarf/hoodie designed for children and animation in Istanbul this past Fall. with autism. Judith M. Atkinson (79) explored the movement of water Jay Gazley (MAA 08) exhibited his arresting geometric and its subtle yet drastic effect on the planet in a solo The iF competition, one of the preeminent international paintings in Vanish: Art & Illustration, at the Art Gallery of exhibition entitled Waterways at the Maple Ridge Art industrial design competitions, challenged up-and- Regina from mid-December 2008 to mid-January 2009. Gallery this spring. coming, young designers from around the globe to compete. More than 3,200 entries were received for the Co-designing Play Spaces in the Therapy Department Kimberly Baker (07) has been busy! Her website was iF concept award 2009, submitted by 1,840 contestants at Sunny Hill is Jen Gellis’ (MAA Candidate) thesis chosen as one of the top 500 by NY Arts Magazine from 39 different nations. Respected specialists research project at Sunny Hill Health Centre for Annual Internet Guide for 2009; she presented a paper selected the “Best 100” during the final adjudication Children in Vancouver. An Occupational Therapist for The Art of Protest at the Canadian Society for Education held March 3, 2009, Hannover, Germany. Beagle, ranked the past five years, Jen has taken an education leave to through Art Conference at Concordia University this 28 out of the 100 awards presented. complete her Master of Applied Arts degree. She is past November, and she took part in a public forum on exploring design as well as how her approach to her Art and the Olympics entitled Running Rings Around Nat Dart (08) screened his animated film The Nature of work with children with disabilities has shifted through Trademarks, presented by the Artists’ Legal Outreach Battle at the 27th annual Vancouver International Film her exposure to design methods. The main goal of the Program, Alliance for the Arts and Culture in October. Festival. VIFF is among the largest film festivals in North Co-design project is to explore the use of creative America and is one of the largest cultural events in design research methods (drawing, photography, Zain Burgess, current fourth year student, has a project Canada. The Nature of Battle is a short animated film building, modeling, collage) with children to inform the entitled Add Noise at PROGRAM Gallery in Berlin. Add that questions current war spending and offers a design of a play space. Noise is an investigation of the subtle organizers of dramatic oppositional solution to the wasteful and urban space—the everyday artifacts that inhabit our destructive practice. Andrew Gibbs (04) had his first solo exhibition at shared environment. Winchester Galleries in Victoria. Mystic Future exhibited Kelly Deck (00) collaborated with Mount Royal for the month of January. Megan Carroll (06) exhibited ceramic sculpture along Developments and Liberty to produce three Parisian with Sandrine Pelissier at the North Vancouver District inspired town homes in Kitsilano. Kelly and her team at Charlotte Glattstein (82) exhibited two and three Hall this past winter. Kelly Deck Design developed the design concept, dimensional pieces in clay and mixed media in an exhibit interior finishes and decor for the show suite which entitled What the eye can touch at Handworks Gallery in was open to the public mid-November. Kelly’s design Oliver, B.C. for the month of October. work was also recently featured in the April 2009 edition of Canadian House & Home Magazine.

8 Emily Carr university of art + design Directions—Terence Gower, Public Spirit was an exhibit The Vancouver Art Gallery (VAG)transformed into a Brodie Kitchen by former student, Terence Gower, at the Smithsonian Northwest Coast Ceremonial House by Dzawada’enuxw Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden from Artist Marianne Nicolson (96). Using high-powered Congratulations to Brodie Kitchen, third year November 2008 to April 2009. The project grew out of theatrical lighting, Marianne transformed the VAG’s Industrial Design student, who was recently awarded his research into the history of the museum during his Georgia Street architecture into a spectacular re- a Millennium Excellence Award. The Millennium 2007 fellowship with the Smithsonian. The exhibition imagining of a traditional Kwakwaka’wakw ceremonial Excellence Award program recognizes, supports and told the story of the original proposal for the Hirshhorn house. The House of the Ghosts ran from October 4, encourages talented Canadians who make positive Museum, which founder Joseph Hirshhorn envisioned as 2008 to January 11, 2009. and significant contributions to the betterment of the centerpiece of a utopian “town of culture” planned their communities, demonstrate a capacity for for the wilderness of western Ontario. Assemblages marked Erik Olson’s (07) first solo leadership and commit themselves to the pursuit of exhibition with Summit Fine Art. The exhibit was held academic excellence and innovation. Erica Henderson (97) worked in a team that was from mid-January to mid-February 2009 in Calgary. nominated for an Emmy Award in Outstanding Visual Erik turned his gaze from the mountain pine beetle The Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation Effects For A Series, for her work on the television infestations in Western Canada to the increasingly recently noted that Emily Carr students received a series Stargate Atlantis, for the show’s fourth season complicated architecture of a surging human total of $552,975 in Millennium bursaries last year! premier, “Adrift.” population. His latest paintings are projections of a During the period of 1999 to 2008 our students nature transformed by human activity articulated in received an amazing cumulative total of $4,425,602. Jeremy Hof (07) winner of the 10th Annual RBC Canadian thick oil. The Millennium Scholarship’s outstanding Painting Competition, held a solo exhibition, Tangible contribution and support is a major reason for the Consequences of a Subjective Revolution at Blanket Isabelle Paulwels (01) exhibited B and E at Presentation continued success of students at Emily Carr. Gallery at the start of the year. The exhibition included House Gallery for the month of February. new paintings, sculpture and installation work. Zoe Peled (08) moderated SFU Philosophers’ Café Yang Hong (01) held an exhibition Up in the Air at Studio Provocative or Progressive: The Use of Animals in Art, a 21 Fine Art Inc. in Halifax this fall. debate on the ethics of using animals, both live and dead, to create art on March 10. Zoe sits on the board of Krista Jahnke, current fourth year student, was the Senior Animals in Need Today Society (SAINTS), and is winner of the Vinterra Villas Photo Competition. Emily one of the founding members of Plank Gallery. Carr students were invited to participate in the Vinterra Villas Photo Competition, where all photo submissions Amy Pelletier (05) examined the psychology of had to be relevant to architecture and design of collectors and the compulsion of collecting through her Vinterra, a housing development in White Rock. recent body of digital prints in which images of objects from collections were layered to create strange new Heidi Johansen (05) exhibited Still floating at 2of2 Gallery forms. Collector was exhibited at Malaspina Printmakers in Toronto this past winter. Still floating featured all new early this spring. carvings and assemblages of people in their boats. Clockwise from top left: Erik Olson, All Tomorrow’s Buildings; Krista Jahnke; Kunal Sen, Still from Key Tumi First year student Sanghyun Samuel Kim exhibited his mixed media sculpture Wastebasket 2 Go, at the Maple Ridge Art Gallery. His work was selected by One 4 One, a group juried exhibition by the Maple Ridge Arts Council. The show intended to convey that there is “one piece of Geoffrey Farmer art for everyone”. The exhibit ran throughout the month of November. Raphael Goldchain

Chris Kirby (06) was featured in the Designer Identikit section of the March/April edition of AZURE Magazine. Chris is currently based in Tokyo and works as a product, lighting and furniture designer.

Jody MacDonald (96) held her first sculpture-based solo show at the Campbell River and District Public Art Gallery. Individual identity, often difficult to discern and maintain in our consumer-driven society, was explored using mixed media soft sculpture.

Kristi Malakoff (05) exhibited Guise, a two-person show at the Richmond Art Gallery this spring. Kristi also exhibited in a show in Toronto at the new Red Bull. The show entitled What It Really Is featured the works of Pale Fire Freedom Machine, 2005 five artists including Associate Professor Liz Magor, and Kerri Reid (03). Kristi also launched her new website: Congratulations to Geoffrey Farmer (92) for receiving the prestigious Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award www.kristimalakoff.com. from the Canada Council for the Arts. The annual awards, worth $15,000 each, recognize outstanding mid-career artists in the seven disciplines funded by the Canada Council: dance, integrated arts, media arts, Ceramicist Margaret Matsuyama (08) was featured in music, theatre, visual arts and writing and publishing. Circle Craft’s February 2009 exhibit featuring the works of Circle Craft’s 2008 student scholarship recipients.

Emily Carr university of art + design 9 Student + Alumni Achievements Continued

Vendula Ralkova (06) exhibited Stolen Time a solo exhibition at the Regional Museum in Jílové u Prahy, Czech Republic. The show opened on March 7 and ran for six weeks.

Christopher Lee Sauvé, former student, and Adbusters alumnus, now does graphic work for the likes of Alexander Wang and Diane von Furstenberg. Christopher has found a cult following among the Vogue-obsessed by designing a “Save Anna” t-shirt. The t-shirt is selling for USD $65 at www.sevennewyork.com.

Jen Schuler, MAA Candidate, exhibited Beloved Linens: Part One, an installation and performance work at the MAA Studio at 1612 West 3rd this spring.

Kunal Sen’s (08) film Key Tumi was nominated for Best International Animation Film at the ASIFA India chapter of World Animation Day. The film was recently screened at the Student Film Showcase of the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this year in May, as well as the Montreal World Film Festival, Filmstock UK, the DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival in Jeff Werner and Tobias Ottahal – NICEFIT, interactive table prototype. Washington DC. Finally, Key Tumi was screened at the Vancouver Asian Film Festival at the end of the year.

Angus Wong, current third year industrial design Ilze Bebris (97), Bronwen Payerle (02) and Robin Ripley (96) Fourth year Industrial Design students JeffW erner and student, has formed Hardihood Clothing Company exhibited at CityScape Community Art Space in North Tobias Ottahal received a Silver Award in the Student which incorporates traditional cultures into fashion by Vancouver for one month in an exhibit entitled Align. Work category for Nice Fit, at the 12th Annual Northwest integrating source material into its aesthetic and Working in sculpture, drawing and the liminal space Design Invitational, a biennial competition, recognizing philosophy. Hardihoods line of men’s shirts and hoodies between, their work disclosed a strong formal sensibility outstanding design since 1988. Entries are evaluated are sold at stores such as Below the Belt, Brooklyn while it addressed feminine subjectivity. according to the competition’s five criteria of excellence: Clothing Company, J2 and The Men’s Club. design innovation, user benefits, market benefits, Kim Kennedy Austin (01), Raymond Boidjoly (06), Colleen ecological responsibility and appropriate aesthetics. Etienne Zack (00) participated in a group exhibition Brown (02), Barb Choit (00), Andrew Dadson (03), entitled Rouge/Red at Art45 in Montreal, Quebec for one Jeremy Hof (07), Cameron Kerr (07), Sara Mameni (04), month starting mid-April. Sin, hell, passion, danger, lust, Igor Santizo (01), Jeremy Shaw (99) and Jen Weih (99) guilt, anger—red is a colour as poignant as it is versatile were all involved in the exhibit Local which included 2009 Sobey Art Award nominees and as such has accompanied artists throughout their 22 Vancouver artists curated by The Apartment in announced quest to capture our most instinctive emotions. collaboration with Fillip Magazine. The exhibition inhabited Fillip’s office for a week and directly The 2009 Sobey Art Award nominees were recently IDSA (Industrial Designers of America) Merit award responded to the studio’s location at the corner of announced and included among the 25 competitors winners were selected by an external professional jury Cambie and Cordova Streets in Vancouver. Local were Julie York (97), Adad Hannah (98) and Keith on March 25. Selected students were: IDSA Senior Merit acknowledged the city’s history of regionally reflective Langergraber, sessional faculty and Continuing Award: Misha Olynyk, fourth year ID student and IDSA exhibition making and was meant to be a part of this Studies instructor. The annual honour, which carries Junior Merit Award: Diane Espiritu, third year ID student. history and contribute to the ongoing discourse. The a prize of $50,000 for the winner was established in The IDSA Merit Awards program is a competition in exhibit ran from early to mid-December. 2002 to celebrate promising Canadian contemporary which students in the Industrial Design program present artists under the age of 40. The winner will be their portfolios to a public audience that includes Catriona Jeffries Gallery presented work by Arabella announced at a gala at the Halifax Gallery on members from the local chapter as jurors. Campbell (02), Geoffrey Farmer (92), Myfanwy MacLeod, October 15, 2009. Gareth Moore (04), Damian Moppett (92), Alex Morrison, Jerry Pethick, Kevin Schmidt (97), Ron Terada (91) and gordon smith Ian Wallace, former faculty, at the 2008 Toronto International Art Fair (TIAF) at the beginning of October. TIAF welcomed close to 18,000 visitors to an BC Scene outstanding collection of contemporary and modern art works presented by 104 participating Canadian and A strong showing of Emily Carr alumni—as well as International galleries. current and former faculty and Board members—are featured in BC Scene, a multidisciplinary arts festival Rice is Life was an exhibit that explored the presented by the National Arts Centre in Ottawa that traditional significance of rice for a dozen Asian featured 600 artists from British Columbia. The arts countries. The exhibit was co-organized by the festival ran from April 21 to May 3. BC Scene Vancouver Museum and the Canadian Society of presented the province’s most exciting artists in Asian Arts and featured nine Emily Carr students who music, dance, visual and media arts, literature, and participated in an exhibition design course. Students the culinary arts, and was the largest-ever gathering included in the exhibit were Sara Hung, Eva Caspar, of BC artists outside the province. Elizabeth Minaker, John Oman, Aerlan McDougall, Julia Chu, Lauren Selden, Ryszard Krukowski and Patrick Participants included: Diyan Achjadi, assistant Kan. The exhibit ran for a month this past Fall at the professor; Abbas Akhavan, sessional faculty; Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. Peter Aspell (42); Sonny Assu (02); B.C. Binning (32); Robert Davidson, former student; Geoffrey Farmer (92); Congratulations to Deniz Merdanogullari (08), Kunal Sen Hadley + Maxwell (98); Jim Hart, Honourary Degree (08) and Aparna Kapur (08) for receiving the Best recipient; Veda Hille, former student; Don Jarvis (48); Picture Award at the Trick17 Stop Motion Competition. Gareth Moore (04); Marianne Nicolson (96); Toni Onley, Their film, Intervelometer competed with eighteen former Board member; Samuel Roy-Bois, sessional teams that were given a 52 hour time limit to write, faculty; Jack Shadbolt, former faculty member; Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaelle Jean shoot and edit their films! Screening was held at the Gordon Smith (46); Takao Tanabe, former faculty; and, presented Gordon Smith (46) with the Governor Granville 7 Cinemas mid-November. Stephen Waddell, former student. General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on March 25th. Two years ago Gordon Smith Chun Hua Catherine Dong (current second year BC Scene also featured Spirit of Place, an exhibition was awarded BC’s Audain Prize for Lifetime student) and Chun Chun Liao (current third year of work by 15 young artists aged 6-16 who have Achievement in recognition of his accomplishments in student) held a group show at the Chinese Cultural been mentored by Emily Carr senior artists and a career spanning more than 60 years as a painter, Centre of Greater Vancouver. Both of their paintings alumni, at Rideau Hall, the residence of the Governor sculptor and printmaker. His works are in collections were awarded an Honorable Mention and were General of Canada. that include the National Gallery, the Museum of exhibited at the Roundhouse Centre this past Fall as Modern Art in New York and the Victoria and Albert part of SEARCHIN, the 14th Annual Exhibition of Chinese Museum in London. In 1996, he was awarded the Canadian Artists Federation in Vancouver. Order of Canada.

10 Emily Carr university of art + design Student Exchange/Mobility Program

Established in 1991, Emily Carr’s Exchange Program is apply to the program. A committee composed of The Exchange Program is one way that Emily Carr based on bilateral student exchange agreements faculty, students, and Student Services encourages students to learn about diversity, both in a between the University and other top international art representatives approves applications—selection is creative and a cultural sense. “Students who live and and design institutions. Emily Carr also participates in a quite competitive. Exchanges take place for one learn abroad inevitably develop new ways of looking at Mobility Program with partner members of the semester of the third year of study. their work, themselves and the world,” says Teresa Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design Hansen, International Education and Student Exchange (US and Canada). What began with a handful of partners While abroad, students are required to keep a journal, Co-ordinator. “Being immersed in other cultures, now boasts participation from more than 70 schools in to document work-in-progress, and to be prepared languages and artistic practices is an opportunity for Canada, the U.S., Mexico, the U.K., Australia, New to discuss their work with faculty upon their return. students to globalize their education by acquiring new Zealand and Europe. Students also participate in a group exhibition, held in levels of international understanding, important the fall of their final year of study. The exhibition, as adaptation skills and cross-cultural competencies. The The Exchange/Mobility Program is a fantastic well as the chance to speak to other students at value of this experience extends far beyond a student’s opportunity for students to experience what schools information sessions, provides participants an years at Emily Carr, as these are qualities that employers are teaching in other parts of the world, and to share opportunity to share their knowledge and insight are increasingly looking for from university graduates in observations and approaches with faculty and peers with the entire Emily Carr community. today’s global environment.” alike. Second-year students with a GPA of 3.0 may

Third-year photography major Anne Cottingham spoke to Visions about her recent exchange at Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland.

With more than 70 schools to choose from, what Would you recommend the Exchange Program to peers? prompted you to choose Edinburgh College of Art? I would absolutely recommend the program. I think it I spent a lot of time searching for schools that still had is so important to experience alternate ways of doing traditional darkroom facilities, because I knew I would or thinking about things, and also to get out in the be interested in continuing the type of work that I do world and see places and meet people you might not here at Emily Carr. Edinburgh College of Art has very otherwise get to. Even in another Western culture, similar facilities to Emily Carr, though ours are in better you’ll still find many different types of thought. shape and more organized! Getting outside of the Canadian culture that I am so used to was eye-opening. It seems so obvious that At the same time, I was also thinking about where I the world is a vast and multicultural place, but it is so would be interested in living and experiencing for four much more apparent (and fun!) once you have months. I have always wanted to live in the UK and have experienced those cultures first-hand. I backpacked friends who do, so Edinburgh seemed a natural choice. around Europe for two months prior to moving to Edinburgh — to Spain, France, the Netherlands, What do you feel is the biggest difference in teaching Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungry, methods at Edinburgh? Croatia, Italy, Ireland and Northern Ireland. A few The UK post-secondary education system is very places I had been before and others I didn’t even hands-off. I had class only one day a week and was know I was going to until a few days prior to getting otherwise left to my own devices. It took a while to get there! But, in every place I saw something new, had a used to, because the North American system holds your different experience, and met someone incredible. hand a bit more. I wouldn’t say either is better; in fact, I Every bit of it has had an impact on the person I am think midway between the two would be ideal. It was continuing to become. definitely a good experience to rely on myself for motivation and instruction. Has your experience at Edinburgh influenced your practice? And if so, in what way? I also had a wonderful instructor who provided very I wouldn’t necessarily say the experience influenced critical feedback — both positive and negative. The my practice so much as it made clear what kind of latter was most important because how can one grow photography I do and what inspires me. I have and learn as a photographer if one is never told what always known that I am a documentary one is doing wrong? I really learned a lot from him. photographer more than any other kind, but the subject matter that interested me was always a little What is the best thing that you are taking away from bit unclear. I know now that I am most inspired by your time at Edinburgh? travel and place, with a little bit of portraiture The best thing I am taking away from the whole thrown in. Since I’ve come back I’ve been focusing experience, not just my time at Emily Carr, is a much more on working in those areas and considering my clockwise from top left: Edinburgh Old Town; Edinburgh stronger understanding of who I am, flaws and all. It’s a future options from that standpoint. Christmas Market; Landscape Edinburgh; Budapest Bath. All photos: Anne Cottingham tough thing to realize that you aren’t perfect and that someone is always going to have issues with who and how you are. I’ve become a much more self-aware person — not to the extent that I am over-analyzing everything I do and how it is perceived, but that I accept who I am and am trying to accept others as they are too.

Emily Carr university of art + design 11 Clockwise from top-left: Paul Shoebridge, From the chapter on Malawi, sign painting featuring writing from child; Jim Oaten, Book Cover; Karen Kazmer, Big Shallow; Arlette Alcock

Heidi May, sessional faculty and Continuing Studies instructor, and Kimberly Baker (07), will be jointly presenting The Bigger Picture: Digital Graffiti Transnationally at Arts 2009 – International Conference on the Arts in Society, Venice, Italy from July 28 to 31.

Shinsuke Minegishi, sessional faculty, exhibited in a juried group show The First Okanagan Print Triennial Exhibition, at the Vernon Public Art Gallery during March and April. The Okanagan Print Triennial featured the best and most innovative prints and print-based works being made by artists working in Canada.

Staff member Jim Oaten, launched his first book Accelerated Paces: Travels Across Borders and Other Imaginary Boundaries in mid-December. Jim was the inaugural winner of subTerrain’s creative non-fiction award, and has had previous work published in Vancouver Magazine, Vancouver Review, The Vancouver Sun, Pacific Rim, and Where.

Kristina Podesva, sessional faculty, has been identified as one of Canada’s standout MFAs in Class of 2008 by Leah Sandals in the winter issue of Canadian Art Magazine. A review of her project, colourschool, which Faculty + Staff Achievements occupied the IDS building at Emily Carr last year, appears in C Magazine’s Art Pedagogy Issue.

Congratulations to Arlette Alcock, Library Assistant, Karen Kazmer, Continuing Studies faculty, took part in a Philippe Raphanel, lecturer and sessional faculty, who was awarded Songwriter of the Year at the 1st collaborative exhibition, Hollow/Shallow, set out to exhibited New Paintings at the Equinox Gallery for the Annual Native-E Music Awards. examine ordinary inanimate spaces and objects by month of January. The exhibition presented a new body incorporating various modes of respiration in two of work derived from the artist’s recent travels between Dennis Burke, Associate Dean, Degree Programs, diverse pneumatic installations. The exhibit took place British Columbia and Brazil. composed the original score for The Dolphin Dealer, a at ARTSPACE in Peterborough, Ontario, this spring. powerful, thought-provoking documentary which Sessional faculty, Ken Singer’s exhibition, How to provides viewers with an unprecedented look at the Ingrid Koenig, Associate Professor, exhibited Navigating Present a Tempest, was inspired by art historical controversial capture and export of wild dolphins, and the Uncertainty Principle at the Nanaimo Art Gallery representations of meteorological turmoil. Singer’s examines the issues and ethics behind the billion dollar from mid-January to mid-February. Ingrid also chromatically intense paintings combine heavily worked dolphin entertainment industry. The broadcast premiere exhibited these works at a solo exhibition for the surfaces, quasi-biomorphic forms and abstraction. Ken of the film was held on CBC Television’s critically Richmond Art Gallery. exhibited How to Present a Tempest at Leo Kamen acclaimed documentary series DOC ZONE in October. Gallery in Toronto from mid-October to mid-November. Deborah Koenker, Associate Professor, curated two Peg Campbell, Associate Professor, was awarded Most concurrent solo exhibitions for the Richmond Art Former art and creative directors for Adbusters Inspirational Short Film by the Senior Youth Jury for her Gallery. Navigating the Uncertainty Principle by Ingrid Magazine as well as former students and current film YOUR MOTHER SHOULD KNOW. The film screened at Koenig, and Observation of Wonder, a two part print sessional faculty, Paul Shoebridge and Michael the Port Moody Film Festival on Valentine’s Day as well and textile-based installation by Brenna Maag (00). Simons (01), have co-authored a book, entitled I Live as reel2real, Bowen Island Film Society, Emily Carr Here. I Live Here is a unique paper documentary Foundation Forum and Women in Film and TV Associate Professor, Liz Magor, will be presented with where the lives of refugees and the displaced are Vancouver International Film Festival. the Audain Prize for Lifetime Achievement, one of BC’s told through journals, stories, images, and graphic most prestigious arts awards, May 11 at the Vancouver novellas: war in Chechnya, ethnic cleansing in Sam Carter, Associate Professor, and Dr. Yosef Wosk, Art Gallery. Magor’s work has been exhibited across Burma, globalization in Mexico, and AIDS in Malawi. Philanthropist, were announced along with forty-three Canada including the Vancouver Art Gallery, National other outstanding British Columbians, as recipients of Gallery of Canada and Art Gallery of Ontario, the Venice Susan Stewart, Interim Dean, Faculty of Culture and the 2009 British Columbia Community Achievement Biennale, and Documenta. In 2001, Magor received the Community, and Seaton presented Change Without Notice, Awards. The recipients of the awards were recognized in Governor General’s Award for Visual Arts. Founded by an artist talk at the Richmond Art Gallery mid-January. a formal presentation at Government House in Victoria Michael Audain, a long-time supporter of visual arts and Change Without Notice looks at gender and social identity on March 10, 2009. Each individual received a certificate Emily Carr honorary degree recipient, The Audain as well as the need for social and environmental diversity and medallion designed by BC artist Robert Davidson. Foundation awards this annual $30,000 prize. to combat global enviromental crises.

SSHRC Grants Breath I/0 Emily Carr was successful in securing the following grants from the Social Sciences and Dr. Maria Lantin, Director of Intersections Digital Studios and Leila Sujir, Associate Humanities Research Council of Canada in the category of Research/Creation. Professor in Intermedia Cyberarts at Concordia University (with Emily Carr collaborators Dr.’s Joy James, Associate Professor, and Ron Burnett, President + Catch and Release: Mapping Stories of Cultural and Geographic Transition Vice-Chancellor), investigate the mix of video, virtuality, and the body. With funding Associate Professor Dr. Ruth Beer, and co-applicants, Associate Professor Jim Budd and from the SSHRC Research Creation program, the team will produce an interactive Dr. Kit Grauer from the University of British Columbia will conduct this three-year virtual video sculpture based on lungs and breath. research project focused on the creation of ‘interactive storyscapes’—sensor-enabled physical installations which use multimedia techniques to provide viewers with an Downstream immersive experience of stories about the origins of their community together with the Kelly Phillips, Assistant Professor, Karolle Wall, Associate Professor and Rita Wong, potential to add to the project by self-authoring stories of their own life experience. Assistant Professor along with a team of scholars will explore the roles of culture and poetics in supporting a healthy, water-based ecology. The research creation project will build toward a book, media work, and a conference at Emily Carr in 2012 around World Water Day, making space for dialogue among environmentalists, community leaders, elders, academics, writers and artists.

In addition to these grants, Dr. Maria Lantin and Associate Professor Julie Andreyev, were awarded a SSHRC Image, Text, Sound & Technology Conference grant to host Interactive Futures 09 (IF09) in November. The theme of the conference is ‘Stereo’ and will bring international artists working in stereoscopic imagery and other sensory illusions to Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

The total value of these grants is close to $500,000 — an outstanding result for a small university. Congratulations to all! mapping

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Sadira Rodrigues

Continuing Studies will be at the A Brief History forefront of some of these changes. We are working towards Continuing Studies is dedicated to non-degree creating a community devoted to programming and lifelong learning, and as a creative engagement, innovation department, has been serving a diverse range of and lifelong learning. students in this capacity since 1997. In the 12 years since its inception, nearly 4,000 students a year have passed through its doors, their commitments ranging from a Summer single painting or drawing course, to the full-time, job-ready Design Essentials program. The growth in the Highlights department has been steady and sustainable: from the January 1997 semester where 43 courses were offered Our summer calendar is now to the current semester where nearly 1,450 students available, and registration opened to were registered in 135 courses. the public on April 16. This summer we are thrilled to present a wide variety of short courses, intensives Our Present and studio workshops in fine arts, design and media for career To share some of the incredible strides we have made, transition, portfolio development, today Continuing Studies offers three part-time professional upgrading or personal certificate programs in Fine Art Techniques, 2D Design interest. Some of our exciting Basics and 3D Design Basics with more than 500 highlights include The Summer students registered. We offer a full-time Design Institute for Teens and our first-ever Essentials Certificate in partnership with BCIT, which Fiber Arts Institute. to date has seen nearly 400 students in 20 cohorts graduate and move on to work in a variety of design- Our successful Teen Institute related jobs. We are the only Apple Authorized Training continues to be a major focus of Center in Western Canada that focuses on Pro-App our summer programming, training in software such as Final Cut Pro, Logic, providing students with an Motion, DVD Studio and others. We are a leader in introduction to the rigours of providing creative training to clients as diverse as full-time study in a four-week, animation houses, public health facilities and financial full-time, studio-based program. management firms. This year, for the first time, we are excited to include an Aboriginal Arts specialization, in which Futures students can explore traditional Right: Summer Institute for Teens 08 students Katelin Mariano and Ross McArthur. and contemporary BC First Nations The year 2009 marks an important transition, not art forms. The Institute concludes only for our new University status but also for the with a major exhibition of student work on July 31 in exploring a range of traditional and contemporary role that Continuing Studies will play in the growing the Concourse Gallery, and we invite you to join us for approaches. This Institute will culminate with an institution. The opportunities for growth and change this celebration. exhibition on Korean Fiber Arts, and a series of Master are exciting, and the energy in the institution to look Fiber Arts Workshops offered in collaboration with the at new, innovative and alternative ways of delivering An exciting addition to this summer’s program is our Craft Association of BC. education place our department in an ideal position Fiber Arts Institute. We are pleased to present a suite to work with both internal and external partners. of new and innovative courses taught by some of the We hope that you will join us as we continue to expand Over the next year as Emily Carr plans and best local and international fiber artists. Subjects our programming, and make Continuing Studies at implements the transition to a University committed range from “Textile Printing” and “Manipulating Emily Carr an innovator and leader in the delivery of art to a holistic approach to pedagogy and learning, Textiles” to “Drawing and Painting with Dyes,” and design training.

Spotlight on: Design Essentials

Amy Clausen

Design Essentials is a 12-month full-time program of This feeling is echoed by Design Essentials student Tyler a remarkable 67% found work in the industry in less study offered in partnership between Emily Carr McGowan (Fall ’09), who says that the Emily Carr course than two months and 85% found placements in less Continuing Studies and BCIT’s School of Digital Arts. Design and the Creative Process has been the highlight than four months. The program offers students a foundation in the key of his program so far. “Being instructed to let go, to try elements of creative thinking along with solid skills in new things with the tools we have, to draw with our The success of Design Essentials graduates in the field is practical design, desktop publishing and web software. eyes closed,” he says, “you really see the passion that impressive, and Kenneth Jeffery, the Design Essentials The courses are offered at both campuses; the Emily the instructors have for their practices.” Program Head at BCIT, knows why. Carr courses cover everything from layout design to typography to creative process, while the BCIT portion The students are equally challenged by their course “At the end of each term, we host an industry event of the curriculum focuses on design technology and work at BCIT, which capitalizes on the technical where graduating students have a chance to show their software applications. institute’s state-of-the-art computing labs and print portfolios to Design principals, web development facilities. As Tyler explains, the students take the companies, and commercial design, print and packaging At a recent information session it was easy to see the technical skills they learn from BCIT and apply those firms. It’s a fantastic opportunity for new professionals students’ excitement about attending both Emily Carr tools to creative problem-solving projects assigned in to try out their networking skills and self-promotion, and BCIT. With the University’s new status and excellent their Emily Carr courses. which are just as important as their portfolios.” reputation, students are eager to become a part of the Emily Carr community. Although the Design Essentials The results are impressive. Twice per year, up to 24 This means that new graduates leave Design Essentials courses at Emily Carr are held in the evenings and on certificate students graduate from the program to with the whole package; an impressive portfolio of weekends, the students clearly get a lot of their pursue careers in the creative workforce. Overall, their work in layout and new media design, some inspiration from the studios and labs they use. Casey they are finding success in their chosen industry, and industry connections, and the confidence and skills to Hrynkow, a Design Essentials instructor at Emily Carr putting their skills to work within a matter of weeks. start working right away. Design Essentials is a and President of Herrainco Brand Strategy + Design, According to the BC College and Institute Student testament to what can happen when two institutions, sees the results firsthand, in the students’ work. “I see Outcomes data, 75% of respondents who completed with different pedagogical approaches, collaborate on a real benefit to the Design Essentials students in being Design Essentials between 2005 and 2007 reported a program of study. within the Emily Carr University family,” she says. She working in jobs that are “Very” or “Somewhat credits “the energy and creativity on the campus” for Related” to their course of study. Out of those inspiring the students in the program. graduates who entered into design-related practice,

Emily Carr university of art + design 13 Black + White Bash A Party to Remember!

On Nov. 7, for the first time in eight years, Emily Carr photographers Brendon Hartley and Samantha Stroman University of Art + Design hosted a party for alumni, digitally captured the reunions. Pictures can be viewed faculty, staff and special guests — and it was well on Flickr at www.flickr.com/photos/emilycarrbash/. worth the wait. Other highlights included MC Joan E, Weekend Following the regal Chancellor Installation Ceremony Leisure (featuring ’04 alum Curtis Grahauer), earlier in the day, where Jake Kerr was installed as our burlesque performances by Melody Mangler and Founding Chancellor, the Black + White Bash offered Shaboobie Boobarella, the smooth do-wop stylings guests the opportunity to let loose and party of Slowpoke and the Smoke, and the highly throughout the evening to the music of Hitmen XB. competitive door prize table.

Guests were in high spirits as they reconnected with old The evening was a great celebration, but one question

i wong friends and made new connections. A popular focal kept arising: When is the next party? We promise you ll i l point was the photo booth, where Emily Carr student won’t have to wait another eight years.

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sl the many sponsors whose generosity helped to make e l the Black + White Bash spectacular: Platinum A & B Partytime Rentals Ltd. Emily Carr Alumni Society Rocky Mountaineer Vacations Russell Brewing Company Gold Emily Carr University Press/READ Books Electro-Ladylux Tattoo Emily Carr University Continuing Studies Hype Hair Studio Opus Framing & Art Supplies Semperviva Yoga Silver Apple Arts Club Theatre Co. Cats Socialhouse Granville Island Brewing Granville Island Florist Granville Island Hotel Granville Island Tea Co. Michele Lyle, Registered Massage Therapist Rhinoceros Rogers’ Chocolates Sammy J. Peppers Frederic T. Samorodin, Registered Physical Therapist Starbucks Clockwise from top right: Emily Carr Students (L-R) Jeffrey Werner, Amanda Huynh, Hamza Vora, Ellen Lee, Tobias Ottahal; Marilyn Studioshop Monroe and Charlie Chaplin impersonators worked the room; Dennis Burke and Bonne Zabolotney; dana stefanson, kyle lamont, Vancouver Art Gallery jacqueline robins, leslie urquhart; Dan Jackson, Yun Lam Li and Lilli Wong.

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Thanks For Your Support! Alumni Society Thank you to everyone whose donations contributed to this year’s successful Annual Campaign. In these difficult economic times, your devotion to making a difference in a student’s life is admirable and greatly appreciated. Sets Goals If you haven’t had a chance to make a donation yet—it’s not too late. Just complete the form above and your contribution will be put to good use helping students by alleviating financial barriers and acknowledging students’ On January 18th, the Alumni academic and creative achievements. Every donation counts! Society and Advancement Office personnel participated in a one-day strategic planning session for the Society led by Barney Ellis-Perry, Director Alumni in Action of Alumni Servicesm UBC Alumni Affairs. Barney facilitated the intensive planning session which included setting priorities, establishing immediate Have you ever wanted to give back to Emily Carr and underprivileged people in developing countries, so I was and intermediate goals, defining a model for the wondered how you can contribute? Alumni are finding delighted to make the time to help.” Society, defining the Society’s vision, and plans to many ways to support students and other alumni as a move the Society’s infrastructure forward. Alumni way of contributing and keeping connected to their Lilli Wong, a 1995 graduate, organized a mini-reunion Society Board members have now broken into alma mater. at Jupiter Café on March 28th for alumni who smaller working groups to advance the Board’s graduated in the mid-90s. Her motivation to organize mission and goals. Contact the Alumni Relations New York photographer Leeta Harding, a 1996 graduate the reunion was a direct result of the Black & White Office at [email protected] or 604 630 4562 if you and 2002 Emily Award recipient, has worked as a cover/ Bash: “After the dance, I was disappointed that I didn’t have any questions or comments. contributing photographer for prestigious magazines get to many see alumni from my year, so I planned [the such as Index, Vanity Fair, and Vibe, and she continues reunion] so we could catch up and see what everyone to exhibit in Europe and North America. On March 30th, else is doing now.” she presented her work, past and present, to Foundation students Interested in as her way of giving back. Leeta shares, “I loved my time at Emily Receiving Visions Carr and have always maintained my connection, so I welcomed Via Email? the opportunity to share my work and experiences with In 2006 Emily Carr University of Art + Design Foundation students.” signed the Talloires Declaration joining a worldwide movement which recognizes higher When one of our alumna needed education’s institutional responsibility towards photos of her project for a sustainable development and in 2008 became a hush-hush competition later this member of the Association for the Advancement year, Alumni Society President of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE). and 2001 graduate Wendy Niamath donated her Emily Carr strives to be a sustainable leader in the photographic services. “I am community and is now offering Visions to be always excited to help other delivered to your home via email. If you would like alumni. This project has the to stop receiving Visions via regular mail, please potential to help thousands of Emily Carr alumna Leeta Harding and student jules francisco contact Dina Tracy at [email protected].

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Calendar of Events

inspiring success speaker series Emily Carr’s Graduate Exhibition Dr. Ron Burnett, President + Vice-Chancellor, will be speaking at Campbell River Chamber’s Inspiring Success Join us as we showcase the work of our speaker series this September. The series runs from 2009 Graduates. March 2009 to March 2010. Other speakers in the series include: Dr. David Suzuki, Lance Carlson, President of May 3-17, 2009, 10am-6pm ACAD, Irene Lewis, President + CEO of SAIT Polytechnic Charles H. Scott Gallery, North Building and Leah Tremain, CEO Tremain Media Inc.

Emily Carr’s Undergraduate Exhibition

The Undergraduate Exhibition features the work of over 300 graduating students. This exhibition highlights student creativity and innovation across visual arts, media and design.

May 3-10, 2009, 10am-6pm Daily North and South Buildings, Emily Carr University

Register now! Summer 09 CS Calendar

The Summer 2009 Continuing Studies calendar is now available. Continuing Studies offers a broad range of courses and workshops in a variety of formats.

Visit ecuad.ca/cs to download a PDF of the Summer 2009 calendar, or call 604 844 3810 to have a copy mailed to you.

Something’s Happening Here

Presentation House Gallery presents Jeremy Shaw’s (99) Something’s Happening Here, a year-long public poster project mounted as part of the 2009 Cultural Olympiad that memorializes and celebrates the legacies of past Upcoming at the Charles H. Scott Gallery civic events, notably those of Expo ’86. Shaw’s images include current and archival photographs of buildings and sites from Vancouver’s iconic World’s Fair, as well as news articles, promotional materials, and souvenir ephemera from the era. These images are used to create street-style posters that will be distributed across the city of Vancouver, beginning in late February 2009 and continuing during the run-up to, and through to the beginning of the 2010 Olympic Games.

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Selwyn Pullan: Positioning the New This issue of Visions is written, except where noted, Photographs from 1945-1975 by the University Advancement Office. Design: thinkwell design June 3 to July 19, 2009 Printed in Canada. Charles H. Scott Gallery Emily Carr University of Art and Design

Selwyn Pullan: Positioning the New, presents a comprehensive survey of the work of Canadian photographer Selwyn Pullan, who studied at the Los Angeles Art Center, graduating in 1950. Architectural photography, then a relatively new profession, had emerged in parallel to modernism and the advances in architecture in North America during the the late 1930’s, and Pullan found his niche in this genre. Pullan’s photographs promoted the new style to a populace Correction to Fall 2008 Visions eager to embrace a modern way of living. This retrospective demonstrates the photographer’s intimate connection to Photos on page 14 A Time to Recognize and Thank the development of modernism on the West Coast of Canada and highlights the social, economic, and cultural forces Our Donors included an error in attendee names. that changed the face of Vancouver and the region during the post-war boom. Christopher Brouch should read Christopher Brough and Bob + Carol Henriquez should read Richard + The exhibition is organized by the West Vancouver Museum. Carol Henriquez. We apologize for this oversight.

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